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On Vacation Flamingo Mug Rug WoolFelt Home Décor Project - Finished size is approximately 9" x 12". Copyright 2019 Elizabeth Coughlin For personal use only, do not sell items made using these designs. Purchase of pattern does not constitute transfer of copyright or license for commercial usage. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Coughlin Designs Blog: ecoughlindesigns.blogspot.com My Etsy Store: ecoughlindesigns.etsy.com

Material Sources:

WoolFelt - National Nonwovens P.O. Box 150 Easthampton MA 01027 1-800-333-3469 http://www.woolfelt.com/ (wholesale) http://www.commonwealthfelt.com/ (online retail).

Embroidery Floss - The DMC Corporation 10 Basin Drive, Suite 130, Kearny, NJ 07032 (973) 589-0606 http://www.dmc-usa.com

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Materials:

National Nonwovens WoolFelt – On Vacation Color Line. (All measurements are for pre-

washed WoolFelt. If using unwashed, allow for approximately 30% shrinkage):

o Two 9" x 12" pieces Jaded Ocean

o 2" x 12" piece, plus seven 1/4" x 1- ½ " strips, Limelight

o 3" x 5" piece Ageless Bronze

o 5" x 5" piece Pink Frost

o 4" x 4" piece Caribbean Coral

DMC Six-Strand Embroidery Floss to match WoolFelt (use three strands at a time):

o 502 for Jaded Ocean

o 471 for Limelight

o 3821 (yellow for accent on Ageless Bronze)

o 152 for Pink Frost

o 351 for Caribbean Coral

Large-eyed chenille needle, straight pins, scissors, freezer paper, pen or pencil, glue

stick, iron.

Instructions:

Trace all pattern pieces onto freezer paper and cut out.

To use the freezer paper templates, place them shiny side down on the WoolFelt. Set

the iron to the wool setting with no steam; the iron must be dry. Iron the freezer paper

onto the WoolFelt, pressing down for a few seconds until the freezer paper sticks.

Cut the pattern pieces out of the WoolFelt in the following quantities:

o Cut sun from the Ageless Bronze.

o Cut flamingo neck/head, wing, and legs from the Pink Frost.

o Cut flamingo beak and body from the Caribbean Coral.

Use the glue stick to adhere smaller applique pieces before stitching.

Set one 9" x 12" piece Jaded Ocean aside for the backing of the project.

Fold the other 9" x 12" piece Jaded Ocean in half and press with an iron on the wool

setting. Open.

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Layer the 2" x 12" piece of Limelight on top of the 9" x 12" piece Jaded Ocean, as shown

in Figure A. Tack in place at the short sides with glue stick.

Figure A

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Position the seven 1/4" x 1- ½ " strips of Limelight as shown in Figure B. Tuck

approximately ½ " of each strip under the larger Limelight piece, slightly angling each

strip in different directions. Keep all the strips on the left half of the Jaded Ocean

background. Tack in place with glue stick.

With the 471 floss, blanket stitch the top edge of the 2" x 12" piece of Limelight to the

Jaded Ocean backing. With the 471 floss, back stitch down the centers of each Limelight

strip. (See Figure B.)

Figure B

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Center the Ageless Bronze sun piece on the left side, above the grass and flush with the

top of the Jaded Ocean background piece. Tack in place with glue stick. (See Figure C.)

With the 3821 yellow floss, back stich down the centers of each sunray, and in a semi-

circle above the rays, as shown in Figure C.

Figure C

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Position the wing on the flamingo body as shown in Figure D. Tack in place with glue

stick. With the 152 floss, back stitch three lines on the wing, as suggested in Figure D.

Set aside.

Figure D

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Position the flamingo legs on the right side of the Jaded Ocean background piece, 1"

from the right edge, and ½ " from the bottom edge. With the 152 floss, blanket stitch

around each leg as shown in Figure E.

Figure E

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Position the flamingo body on top of the leg unit, overlapping as shown in Figure F. The

right tip of the body should be ½ " from the right edge of the background. Tack in place

in the center with glue stick. With the 351 floss, blanket stitch around the perimeter of the

flamingo body, leaving an opening for the neck as show in Figure F.

Figure F

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Tuck the edge of the neck/head under the body, and tack down with glue stick. Finish

the body stitching with the 351 floss, going over the neck area. (See Figure G.)

Figure G

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With the 152 floss, blanket stitch around the neck/head as shown in Figure H.

Figure H

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Position the beak at end of the head/neck, overlapping the head slightly. Blanket stitch

around the beak with the 351 floss. (See Figure I.)

Figure I

With the 502 floss, add a French-knot eye to the flamingo as indicated in Figure J.

Figure J

Press the appliqued top with an iron on the wool setting.

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Layer the reserved 9" x 12" Jaded Ocean piece behind the appliqued top and pin

securely.

With the 471 floss, blanket stitch around the sides and bottom of the grass area, sewing

through all layers of WoolFelt. (See Figure K.)

Figure K

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With the 502 floss, blanket stitch around the rest of the mug rug, sewing through all

layers of WoolFelt. Stitch under the sun where it meets the top of the mug rug. (See

Figure L.)

Figure L

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Press the completed mug rug with an iron on the wool setting.

The finished mug rug measures approximately 9" x 12".

For questions regarding this project, please contact Elizabeth at ecoughlin@comcast.net

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Stitch Diagrams

French Knot

Bring your needle up through the fabric. Wrap the thread around the fabric three times. Insert

the needle back into the fabric close to the hole you came out of. Slowly pull the needle and

thread through the wrapped loops to complete knot.

Patterns: Print at 100%. Trace and cut one of each from freezer paper.